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Network Address Translation
Why: Internet commercialization (early 1990s)
Predicted shortage of official IP-adresses
Long term solution: IPv6 (128 bit addresses)
Shorter term solutions: translation logic (RFC 1631, 1994) and private (non routable) addresses (RFC 1918, 1996)
When official addresses are not
available
practical
Our IPv6 code originally came from the KAME project (but intensive cleanup now underway after clashes with reality)